Speakers

  

All the Particle Physicists on the list below are happy to give talks to schools or other groups.  If you would like to invite them to give a talk, please contact them directly.

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London, South and South East.
Midlands and East Anglia.
South West England.
Wales
Yorkshire.
North East England.
North West England.
Scotland.

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Name  Institute Telephone Other Details / Title of Talk
Richard Kenway  Edinburgh

0131 6505245

Computer Simulation of Elementary
Particles
Rebecca Crawford  STEMPOINT Scotland 0141 3306396  Can arrange talks in Scotland           
 Victoria Martin  Edinburgh 0131 6517042  
 Alan Walker  Edinburgh  0131 650 5237

Particle Physics for Scottish Schools (PP4SS) Exhibition

North West England
Name Institue Telephone Other Details / Title of Talk
Chris Bowdery Lancaster 01524 61678 The Higgs Boson and the Origin of Mass
Tim Greenshaw Liverpool  0151 7943383                                                                       
Roger Barlow Manchester  0161 2754178 High Energy Physics Today
Fred Loebinger Manchester 01612754180 Quarks and Gluons -
The Story of Elemental Particle Physics
North East England
Name Institute Telephone Other Details / Title of Talk

Andy Buckley

 Durham 0191 3343798
 Pete Edwards  Durham  01913343782 Talks suitable for key stage 3,4 and sixth form students
Topics include:
       What is Matter?
       Radioactivity
       Particle Detectors
       Mined Over Dark Matter
 Nigel Glover Durham  0191 3343479  The hunt for the Higgs
 James Stirling  Durham  0191 3343749  
Yorkshire
Name Institute Telephone Other Details / Title of Talk
Susan Cartwright Sheffield 0114 222 4572 A talk through the Universe (Key Stage 1 and 2)
      Dark Matter the Stuff of the Universe     
      Diving for Neutrinos: Neutrinos and the
origin of cosmic rays
      The Ideas of Particle Physics
      Quantum Physics
Neil Spooner Sheffield 0114 222 4422                                                                         
Lee Thompson Sheffield 0114 222 4577 Particle Astrophysics
Neutrino Astronomy
Cosmic Rays
Dark matter and ANTARES: Diving for WIMPs!
Midlands and East Anglia
Name Institute Telephone Other Details / Title of Talk
Richard Bailey Cambridge 01223 337434                                                                                    
Cristina Lazzeroni  Cambridge 01223 337324  
Andy Parker Cambridge  01223 337324  
Ian Kenyon Birmingham  0121 414 4627  
Pete Watkins Birmingham  0121 414 4625  Quarks, Leptons and Bosons
 Gary Barker Warwick  02476 523399  
 Steve Boyd Warwick  02476 573876  
 Tim Gershon Warwick  02476 523778  
 Paul Harrison Warwick  02476 572942  
 Yorck Ramachers Warwick  02476 573878  
Wales
Name Institute Telephone Other Details / Title of Talk
Chris Alton University of Wales, Swansea 01792 295738                                             
Tegid Wyn Jones University College London 020 76797150 Welsh language a speciality
South West
  Name            Institute Telephone Other Details / Title of Talk
 Helen Heath Bristol  0117 9288714 Small is beautiful: A look at size from us to the proton
      Hunting in the Higgs:  The large Hadron Collider at CERN
and how it aims to discover the origin of mass
 Vincent Smith   Bristol  0117 9288740 Quarks and Leptons:
The Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics
       Relativity and the Twin Paradox
       Wave Particle Duality:
Is the electron there when you are not looking?
       The Higgs Boson and other things we don't know yet
       Matter and Anti-matter
       What Time is it on Mars
(How to measure time on earth and other planets)
       
Martin Lavelle  Plymouth  01752 232729  What's the Matter with Anti-matter?
       From the Light Bulb to Quantum Computing
- 100 years of Quantum Mechanics
       50 years of strangeness
       Chocolate, Mirrors and the Speed Of Light
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Name Institute Telephone Other Details / Title of Talk
David Miller University College  London 020 76797152 The Sex-Life of the Proton
      Cosmic Etiquette
      Z, LEP and the Universe
Jon Butterworth University College London 020 76797105   
Nikos Konstanidis University College London 020 76793411  
Mark Lancaster University College London 020 76797141  
Ken Peach Oxford University and Royal Holloway, University of London 01865 273312 Much Ado About Nothing
- Particle Physics and the Vacuum
Nigel Smith The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
01235 445782 Dark Matter and the Search
for WIMPs in the UK
 Chris Damerell The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  From Penguins to WIMPS:
Travels of a Particle AstroPhysicist
Bob Brown The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
01235 446216  
Stephen Haywood The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
01235 446761 What Makes the World Tick
 William Murray The STFC
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
 01235 446256 The Search for the Higgs Boson
    What You Need to Know About
Quantum Mechanics
       Particle Physics Today
 Mike Green  Royal Holloway University of London 01784 443454  What is the Matter? Where is the Antimatter? 
 Hugh Shanahan  Royal Holloway University of London  01784 443433
 Peter Kalmus  Queen Mary, University of London 020 78825042 

Particles and the universe

Antimatter

The forces of nature

Mirror images, antimatter and  time reversal

 Paul Kyberd  Brunel University  01895 266801 Working at CERN
    Darkness Visible
Neutrinos and Conservation Laws
      CP Violation and the Origin of Matter
 Steve Lloyd

Queen Mary, University of London

020 78825057  The Data Deluge and the Grid
 Sanjaye Ramgoolam  Queen Mary, University of London 020 78825047

String Theory and Hidden Dimensions of Spacetime

Duality between Gravity and Light in String Theory

 Elliot Leader Imperial College London  020 7594 7808  
Ken Long Imperial College London  020 7594 7812  
Igor Liubarsky Imperial College London  020 75947878  
Todd Huffman Oxford University  01865273333 If Particle Physicists are not really
interested in particles,
just what ARE they interested in?
Gerald Myatt Oxford University 01865 273381 Dark Matter in the Universe
Hans Kraus Oxford University 01865 273361  
Tony Weidberg Oxford University 01865 273370 Everything You Ever Wanted
To Know About Quarks
- But Were Afraid to Ask
 Alan Barr  Oxford University 01865 273636   Atom smashing - the world's biggest experiment
Nick Evans Southampton 023 80592093  
Jonathon Flynn Southampton 023 80592093  
Steve King Southampton 023 80592093  
Stefano Moretti Southampton 023 80592093  
Tim Morris Southampton 023 80592093  
Chris Sachradja Southampton 023 80592093